3D multi-slab acquisition is an important technique for high-resolution isotropic diffusion MRI. To further accelerate the acquisition, simultaneous multi-slice (SMS) excitation can be combined with multi-slab, termed simultaneous multi-slab (SMSlab). Previously it has been demonstrated that the SMSlab un-folding problem can be solved using a 3D Fourier encoding framework. When applying SMSlab to diffusion MRI, the main challenge is how to simultaneously un-fold the excited multiple slices/slabs and correct the inter-shot phase variations. To achieve this, a delicate navigator acquisition is designed and a POCS-enhanced k-space phase correction method is used in this study.
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